Ovid Quotes, Events Quotes

The act is judged of by the event.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Events Quotes , World Quotes

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Events Quotes , Becoming Quotes

Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

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Tags : A.S.A. Harrison Quotes , Events Quotes , Details Quotes

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Events Quotes

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Mean Quotes , Events Quotes

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Events Quotes , Results Quotes

It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Progress Quotes , Events Quotes

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Events Quotes

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Flames Quotes , Events Quotes